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Percival Everett, a distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California and erstwhile cowboy, was at work on…

What connects American Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet across 400 years to rapper Cardi B? The answer, for Lillian Faderman, is…

Viewers will have the opportunity to stream free Cleveland International Film Festival documentaries, all with an Anisfield-Wolfian flavor, from September…

What is the schedule for CIFF Streams + Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards film events?For a list of film events and their…

By Lisa Nielson Almost 90 years ago, two women quietly cooked up what is to this day the only juried…

Cara Byrne, PhD is a lecturer in English at Case Western Reserve University In her 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award…

Viewers will have the opportunity to stream free Cleveland International Film Festival documentaries, all with an Anisfield-Wolfian flavor, from September…

One of the most surprising things about “Good Trouble,” a new documentary on Georgia Congressman John Lewis’ six decades in…

As a scholar and writer, his footprint is vast, and no one, since the great W.E.B. Du Bois, has done more to reframe the narrative of his field away from the ‘Lost Cause’ myth of white supremacy, toward interracial democracy, truth, and justice.

My parents speak two different Bantu languages, and even my sister and I speak different languages; so, we all speak to each other in English. We speak Nyanja, Namwanga, Mambwe and Bemba. I tend, when I think in Zambian words, to think in Bemba, not Nyanja.

With the William G. Mather steamship providing a nautical backdrop, poet Tracy K. Smith brought her work to the shores…

By Gabrielle Bychowski Sitting at my desk, I set down my copy of A Room of One’s Own, looked over…

In 1970, Harvey Milk, a boisterous, restless New Yorker, turned 40 without a sense of having accomplished much. But in…

Growing up in DeLisle, Mississippi has influenced me in many ways. Growing up here taught me to appreciate beauty, the beauty of the bayous and of the forests and of the Gulf. Growing up in this community taught me to appreciate storytelling, taught me to appreciate language.

Thanks to Wesley Lowery and his colleagues at the Washington Post, citizens anywhere can click on the newspaper’s “Fatal Force”…

The Lavender Graduation is an annual celebration that occurs on numerous campuses across the country, where graduating lesbian, gay, bisexual,…

Coretta Scott King begins her posthumous new memoir with a terrific metaphor: “Most people know me as Mrs. King. The…

The Evening Road returns Laird Hunt to Indiana, where the Anisfield-Wolf winner lived on his grandmother’s farm during his high…

The editors of the New York Times Style magazine invited four woman to write letters of appreciation to Michelle Obama…

by Lisa Nielson, Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University. I was taking an internet break from my pile of…